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business-casual

business-casual is the alternative form of business casual.

Meaning of business casual

Noun

business casual (uncountable)

  1. Any standard of dress used in many business environments that is casual overall; it thus excludes most formal clothes (such as a business suit and tie) but also excludes certain overly casual clothes (such as short shorts).

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Forms of business-casual

comparativemore business-casual
superlativemost business-casual

Questions about business-casual

What is business-casual the alternative form of?
Business-casual is the alternative form of business casual.

Words near business-casual in the dictionary

  1. business trips
  2. business unit
  3. business venture
  4. business ventures
  5. business-as-usual
  6. business-casual
  7. business-critical
  8. business-friendliness
  9. business-friendly
  10. business-like
  11. business-man

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Adapted from Wiktionary: business-casual (page history and authors); business casual (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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